Surveillance in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps

This research investigates the concept of surveillance in Bina Shahs Before She Sleeps (2018). Surveillance is a disciplinary power that functions as a method adopted by the State to convert individuals into bodies categorised as submissive and productive. It adopts a Foucauldian conception of power, its procedures, mechanisms, and effects in creating a panopticon society. A coercive State manipulates power by enforcing surveillance, discipline, and a normalisation process on its citizens, particularly women, to gain universal power. However, the population resists the dynamics of the dominant power of surveillance to change the stereotyped images enforced on them. The research confirms that resistance is a direct reaction of the subjugated individuals against the fragility of the surveillance power.